PHP:: Fetch pure text

Asked Apr 06 '17 at 21:00

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I'm courious if it's possible to fetch pure text from any html source code.

here is my simple code :

preg_match_all("/>(.*)</",$htmlFile,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);

foreach ($matches as $match)
{
        highlight_string($match[0]);
}
die();

obviosly the problem that not everything between >(.*)< is a pure text. so for example in that scenario:

<table style="width:100%"><tr><th>Firstname</th><th>Lastname</th><th>Age</th></tr><tr><td>Jill</td><td>Smith</td><td>50</td></tr><tr><td>Eve</td><td>Jackson</td><td>94</td></tr></table>

I'm expecting to get :

Firstname,Lastname,Age,Jill,Smith,50,Eve,Jackson,94

asked Apr 06 '17 at 21:00

PUG

1

[`strip_tags()`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php) – Jay Blanchard Apr 06 '17 at 21:01
Use a non-greedy regexp. – Barmar Apr 06 '17 at 21:04
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DOM ............. http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php – Apr 06 '17 at 21:04
@JayBlanchard If he uses `strip_tags` everything will be combined into one long string, with no boundaries between the columns. – Barmar Apr 06 '17 at 21:05
True @Barmar, just a suggestion. Then "pure text" is not what he is after :) – Jay Blanchard Apr 06 '17 at 21:06
Yea, just to clarify I need to get the values into an array not just for simple output :) – PUG Apr 06 '17 at 21:07
@JayBlanchard He's using `preg_match_all()`, so he's trying to get each match as a separate array element. – Barmar Apr 06 '17 at 21:07
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@PUG You can simply change `.*` to `.*?` to make it non-greedy. But it would be better to use a DOM parser library rather than a regexp to process HTML. – Barmar Apr 06 '17 at 21:08
Note that `>` is displayed as text if there's no `<`. – Aloso Apr 06 '17 at 21:10

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